Subgroup 1: Women Artists Series Exhibited Artists Files

Arranged alphabetically by name of artist, then chronologically by activity and/or dates of materials.

The Exhibited Artists Files contain material related to all artists exhibited by the Series since 1971, and provides significant documentation of the careers of the artists, particularly of their contributions to the Series, as well as documentation of the exhibitions themselves and the related activities of the Series staff. Most of the materials are described in the container list as research, exhibition, or catalog materials. Research materials include resumes, slides, exhibition catalogs and ephemera, clippings, and videotapes. Exhibition materials include artist statements, checklists, artist correspondence, Series staff correspondence and office records, Series exhibition ephemera and publicity materials, and floppy disks with printouts of their files. Catalog materials include photographic prints, artist statements, drafts of essays, correspondence related to catalog production, and to a limited degree the catalogs themselves. Series artists who are represented exceptionally well include Alice Aycock (13 folders), Minna Citron (6), Janet Culbertson (14), Loretta Dunkelman (16), Linda Lindroth (11), Hung Liu (12), Halina Rusak (6), Carolee Schneemann (9), Joan Snyder (15), and June Wayne (9).

In addition to the individual artists' exhibitions, artists' contributions to a number of group shows and retrospectives are also documented in the individual artists' files. These include the large Series retrospectives held in 1981, 1992 and 1996, an exhibition of Douglass College alumnae held during the 1998/1999 season, and the group shows Modern Masters: Women of the First Generation (1982/1983), Ageless Perceptions: Forms of Abstraction (1989/1990) and Private Eye (1998/1999).

The Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Lectureship was inaugurated in 1999, and activities related to it are documented in great detail in the folders of Lebowitz herself, and in those of the artists who received the Lectureship: Carolee Schneeman (1999/2000), Siri Berg (1999/2000), June Wayne (2000/2001), Hung Liu (2001/2002), and Miriam Schapiro (2004/2005).

Also of particular significance are folders of research materials gathered in 2002 by Rutgers students engaged in a senior art history seminar that studied women artists who were graduates of Douglass College, using this collection as one research resource.

Researchers gathering information on a specific exhibited artist may wish to also consult the folders in the Operational Files corresponding to the season in which the artist was exhibited. In instances where there is no material related to an artist's participation in a particular exhibition (largely limited to the 1981 retrospective), a note appears chronologically in the container list under the name of the artist, so that the container list may serve as a complete record of each artist's contributions to the Series.